LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Black chalk and gray wash within pen and black ink framing lines

Measurements:

5.79 in. (14.70 cm.) (height) by 7.68 in. (19.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed in black chalk, upper right: PMolyn. (PM in monogram)

Literature:

H.-U. Beck,. Pieter Molyn 1595-1661, Katalog der Handzeichnungen , Doornspijk 1998, p. 187, cat. no. 405

Provenance:

Sale, D. Vis Blokhuizen, Rotterdam, 23 October 1871, lot 415 (fl. 3.50 an Linnig);. Dr August Sträter (1810-1897), Aachen (L.787),. his sale, Stuttgart, 10 May 1898, lot 1150;. Carl Faber,. his sale, Stuttgart, 10 November 1904, lot 350;. With C.G. Boerner, Leipzig,. from whom purchased, 13 October 1939, by Wilhelm Friedrich Mertens (1870-1957), Leipzig, the great-grandfather of the present owners